Rabia Hamid is an Associate Professor in Biochemistry in the University of Kashmir, Srinagar. She graduated and obtained her doctorate in Biochemistry from the University of Kashmir. She has many years of teaching and research experience in Biochemistry, at postgraduate and doctoral levels. She teaches basic Biochemistry courses, including metabolism, microbiology, molecular biology, free radical biology, physiology and clinical biochemistry and has written several books on some of these topics. Her research interests include the fields of protein chemistry, free radical biology and cancer biology. Currently, her lab conducts research in the area of medicinal plants for biochemical evaluation and their therapeutic role in diseases like diabetes, inflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, etc. She has published many papers in these areas in international journals of repute.